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			<h1>Introduction</h1>
			<p>Folklore, legends, myths and fairy tales have followed childhood through the ages, for every healthy youngster has a wholesome and instinctive love for stories fantastic, marvelous and manifestly unreal. The winged fairies of Grimm and Andersen have brought more happiness to childish hearts than all other human creations. </p>

			<p>Yet the old time fairy tale, having served for generations, may now be classed as <i>"historical"</i> in the children's library; for the time has come for a series of newer <i>"wonder tales"</i> in which the stereotyped genie, dwarf and fairy are eliminated, together with all the horrible and blood-curdling incidents devised by their authors to point a fearsome moral to each tale. Modern education includes morality; therefore the modern child seeks only entertainment in its wonder tales and gladly dispenses with all disagreeable incident.</p>

			<p>Having this thought in mind, the story of <i>"The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"</i> was written solely to please children of today. It aspires to being a modernized fairy tale, in which the wonderment and joy are retained and the heartaches and nightmares are left out.</p>
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			<p><b>L. Frank Baum</b></p>

			<p><b><i>Chicago, April, 1900.</i></b></p>
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